How do you protect your kids from MIL’s “Almond Mom” behavior?

You can read my background- my MIL is a piece of work. She was not an almond mom while my husband was a child but she is OBSESSED with food and “the healthy food olympics” now.

We are pretty sure she is on ozempic (FIL is) but she won’t admit it, and she eats like a bird or only eats specific “healthy food”. We don’t care about these things. We DO care about the comments she makes about food now.

Some examples:

-Stating she would have never fed her children non dairy milk because “all that sugar and processing is bad for them, children need low sugar high protein whole milk only” when discussing children with dairy intolerances.

• Complaining about her stomach feeling bad from “eating nothing but junk” when visiting us and how “it’s so hard to eat like that when you never do”. We made her several homecooked meals full of lean meat and veggies and went to a restaurant where half the table ordered salads but she got fried food. We were actually very offended by this one.

-Commenting on people’s portion sizes, food orders, and how healthy or not she thinks they are and things like “oh I could NEVER eat all that/eat like that” and of course comments about the calories in things, how carbs are unhealthy, etc.

This is a very condensed list, she has commented on my SIL’s (not her kid, through marriage, struggles with her weight) weight TO HER FACE, recommended ozempic to her children, and so much more for the entire time I’ve known her.

So I need some advice from BTDT parents who have dealt with this kind of commentary on how we’re keeping our kids safe from almond grandmothers and not letting them comment on our children’s bodies.

We’re already low contact, live out of state, but cutting her off entirely is not something we are doing at the moment, so I need advice for these few occasional visits, and it’s fresh on my mind after a recent visit.